2021-04-26 at 4:55 PM UTC
The Hill
Cheney breaks with McCarthy on scope of Jan. 6 panel
Scott Wong
House Republican Conference Chair Liz Cheney (Wyo.) broke Monday with House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), telling reporters that a proposed 9/11-style independent commission should narrowly focus on the deadly Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.
McCarthy, a close ally of former President Trump, has said the scope of the bipartisan commission should be broader and include other episodes of political violence, like Black Lives Matter and antifa protests around the country that have turned violent at times.
"What happened on Jan. 6 is unprecedented in our history, and I think that it's very important that the commission be able to focus on that," Cheney said at a GOP gathering in Florida when asked about the scope of the commission's probe.
"I'm very concerned, as all my colleagues are, about the violence that we saw, the BLM, the antifa violence last summer. I think that's a different set of issues, a different set of problems and a different set of solutions," she continued. "And so I think it's very important that the Jan. 6 commission stays focused on what happened on Jan. 6, and what led to that day."
Cheney's public break with McCarthy came at the opening of the House Republicans' annual policy retreat in Orlando. It highlighted the widening gulf between Cheney, the highest-ranking GOP woman in Congress, and McCarthy, the top House Republican leader, at a gathering intended to unify the party behind a common agenda and 2022 campaign message.
Cheney was one of 10 Republicans who voted to impeach Trump for his role in the Jan. 6 insurrection that was aimed at stopping the certification of President Biden's election victory; McCarthy has been one of Trump's most loyal, steadfast defenders.
With her comments about the Jan. 6 commission, Cheney has aligned herself with Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), who also has advocated for the creation of a new panel that is narrowly focused on the events leading up to and on Jan. 6.
The Cheney-McCarthy divide didn't stop there. Though Trump no longer occupies the White House, McCarthy views Trump as the de facto leader of the GOP, frequently calling Trump and visiting him at his Mar-a-Lago resort to ask for his support in the upcoming 2022 midterm elections.
Cheney has said it's time for the party to move on from Trump. When she was asked Monday who the leader of the Republican Party is, Trump was not on her list.
"I think right now, the Republican Party is headed by Mitch McConnell and Kevin McCarthy in the House. I think our elected leaders, you know, are the ones who are in charge of the Republican party," Cheney said. "And I think as we look at '22 and '24, we're very much going to be focused on substance and on the issues."
2021-04-26 at 4:59 PM UTC
Seriously?
A Faux News link.
If I wanted a fairy tale, I'd read Aesop.
2021-04-26 at 7:26 PM UTC
Faux News is propaganda and entertainment for people of low intelligence.
I'm sure he prefers the intellectually superior and finer networks, like MSNBC and CNN. I mean, who doesn't worship Jake Tapper and Anderson Cooper?
2021-04-26 at 10:47 PM UTC
Democrats are just jumping the shark now. They're pushing it to the point of no return.
2021-04-26 at 10:51 PM UTC
Rule of law is dead in America. Place is fucked.
2021-04-27 at 12:18 AM UTC
FAUX NEWS CAUGHT LYING
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UNFAIR AND DEFINITELY UNBALANCED
CNN
Fox News host admits his show was wrong about Biden limiting red meat consumption
By Daniel Dale
A Fox News anchor admitted on air on Monday that his show was inaccurate when it claimed on Friday that President Joe Biden is trying to require Americans to sharply reduce their consumption of red meat.
John Roberts, co-host of the afternoon show "America Reports," made the Monday concession after CNN and other media outlets published fact check articles explaining that Biden does not have any plan to restrict red meat consumption.
Roberts acknowledged Monday that "a graphic and the script" from his Friday show "incorrectly implied" that a 2020 academic study about meat-eating and greenhouse gas emissions is "part of Biden's plan for dealing with climate change."
"That is not the case," Roberts said.
Roberts had falsely claimed on Friday that the study -- which is not connected in any way to Biden's actual policies -- found that people need to "say goodbye to your burgers if you want to sign up to the Biden climate agenda." As Roberts spoke on Friday, Fox aired a graphic that claimed "Biden's climate requirements" are to "cut 90% of red meat from diet, max 4 lbs per year, one burger per month."
The graphic went viral online; it was amplified on Twitter by Donald Trump Jr., the Republican governors of Texas and Idaho and others. But it was entirely wrong.
Biden has not put forward any proposal to force Americans to change their diets. And the study Roberts cited -- which was published before Biden had even won the Democratic presidential nomination -- was not about Biden at all.
The study from scholars at the University of Michigan and Tulane University looked at what would happen to greenhouse gas emissions if Americans hypothetically decided to reduce their meat consumption to four pounds per year. It said nothing about a government-mandated reduction to four pounds per year -- and did not even mention Biden's name.
The Daily Mail, a British tabloid, baselessly linked the study to Biden in a Thursday article. A series of Fox personalities then did the same thing on Friday and Saturday.
Fox News hosts Jesse Watters and Ainsley Earhardt also pushed false claims about Biden and red meat. So did Fox Business host Larry Kudlow, the former Trump administration economic official.
Carly Shanahan of Fox's media relations department declined to comment on Monday when asked whether these hosts would also acknowledge they were inaccurate.
2021-04-27 at 12:30 AM UTC
100 Republicans Fail Commitment To Democracy Test...I Thought There Would Be More...Must Be Grading On The Curve
Salon
Anti-Trump Republican group begins grading GOP members: Kevin McCarthy gets an F
Zachary Petrizzo
The Republican Accountability Project, an anti-Trump conservative group has gone from holding top GOP lawmakers such as House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy accountable on social media to launching a new "scorecard" website that grades GOP members on their commitment to democracy.
"The Republican Accountability Project has created what it's calling a 'GOP Democracy Report Card,' which assigns grades to Republican members of Congress ranging from an 'A,' which the group describes as excellent, to an 'F,' which it describes as very poor," CNN reported on Monday morning.
The group is led by longtime Republican operatives (and Trump critics) Bill Kristol and Sarah Longwell, along with former Trump administration official Olivia Troye. It has already doled out numerous failing grades to prominent GOP lawmakers, including Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz and Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene. "Only 14 Republicans in Congress received an 'A,' the highest possible grade. In contrast, more than 100 Republicans received an 'F,' the lowest possible grade," CNN further noted.
The group's report card grading of GOP lawmakers considers how legislators voted on various issues pertaining to the 2020 election, along with the veracity of their statements about the 2020 election results and whether they voted to convince former President Trump during his second impeachment trial. "Actions have consequences and this is part of us working to hold these individuals accountable and not let them get away with it as time passes and they try to move past it and paint it under a different light," Troye told CNN. The former Trump official added the website can be used to track "who have been actively trying to do what's right for the country."
On Sunday, McCarthy was faced with a stringent line of questions from Sunday Fox News anchor Chris Wallace, who pressed the House minority leader over his phone call with Trump while the Capitol riot was in progress on Jan. 6. Wallace began the segment with Trump's reported words during that call: "Well, Kevin, I guess these people are more upset about the election than you are." Things grew ever tenser after that.
McCarthy then fired back, claiming he was the "first person" to get in touch with Trump on Jan. 6. "I was the first person to contact him when the riots were going on," McCarthy said. "When he ended the call, he was telling me he will put something out to make sure to stop this. And that's what he did. He put a video out later."
Responding to McCarthy's comment about the video, the Fox anchor pointed out that Trump's video was rather weak and came a bit too late to stop the mayhem.
Rather than directly addressing his call with Trump, the House Republican leader dodged a myriad of questions from Wallace on the topic. "My conversations with the president are my conversations with the president," McCarthy said. "I engaged in the idea that we could stop what was going on inside the Capitol at that moment in time; the president said he would help," he added. McCarthy further insisted he had done nothing wrong, and said he was unbothered by the prospect of ongoing investigations into what occurred in Washington on that winter day.
2021-04-27 at 12:35 AM UTC
Fuck, lefties are pathetic.
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